As director of the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast, Dr. Delores Conway is widely respected for her research on commercial and residential real estate markets in Southern California. A respected real estate economist, she is well known for her financial pricing models and is frequently interviewed by the national news media for her take on real estate investments nationwide. She has been a member of the USC Lusk Center Research Committee for the past three years and on the faculty of the Marshall School since 1985. Much admired for her teaching skills, Dr. Conway was named the Marshall School's most popular professor in a Business Week survey of the Top 25 business schools. In 1999, she received the university's highest teaching honor - the University Associates Award for Excellence. She has served as associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Dr. Conway received her Ph.D. and master's degree in statistics from Stanford University, and undergraduate degrees in mathematics, statistics and computer methods from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was the first woman appointed to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business faculty where she taught for six years before joining USC in 1985. PR Contact: Francie Murphy, 858-350-5152
June 26, 2006